Why is the LSP group called that? LSP - biography of a rap artist

Oleg LSP appeared on our radar three years ago. But it all really started only in 2014: two albums were released at once - the winter "YOP" and the recent "Hangman", which we really liked. The Flow walked with Oleg and his colleague Roma around Moscow and went to their concert.

Oleg and Roma the Englishman are sitting on a park bench and are getting ready to go to VDNKh to play basketball. They laugh, reminisce about their recent interviews (each trashier than the next), and with the recorder in my hand, I feel a little foolish. Nothing comes to mind smarter than the question: “So you are a group now?” “A group,” they agree.

“Usually when they interview us, they immediately ask about the name. Recently they asked - is it true that this means “A ray is stronger than a bullet”? Well, we say, no, it means “Lick yourself..... (vagina)”.

Oleg graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Roma studied postmodern philosophy. At the same time, he played in the electropunk band GreenChe; at one of the concerts, Lekha Nikonov from the Last Tanks in Paris noticed her and invited her to perform at the legendary St. Petersburg club “Griboedov.” The group, however, did not last long. “ Side effect punk means that you stick out tightly. It really interferes with work."

After that, Roma was engaged in studio work, one day he was asked to mix the album of “one guy from Vitebsk.” “I said that it was too positive, “bananas” there, “ice cream”! Well, he refused - some other guy mixed it - no effect. I say: “Introduce me to this guy, I have a few existential disadvantages for him.”

The “existential” minuses came at just the right time. If on the first release of LSP “Seeing Colorful Dreams” everything was, albeit sad, but very bright (“as if Kid Cudi hung out with Mitya Fomin” - I once recommended him to my friends) , then in 2014 he recorded two albums of songs about how disgusting everything is. I must clarify: beautiful songs about how disgusting everything is.

“Roma is not a hip-hop person, but now he has gradually become more tolerant. He can turn on Drake, he likes “No New Friends.” Oleg and I quote songs from the group Legal Bizne$$ to each other; for him, their record became almost the first rap album. And he started writing rap after he watched Timati on TV in the “Star Factory.” “I saw the guy come out - and the topic that my mother was watching exploded with hip-hop. ..... (amazing) in general , I decided to quit the rap guy too.”

As a person who graduated from the philology department, Oleg uses his words very carefully. In his songs, as in a youth comedy, everything is simple and not confusing. The heroine loves the drug dealer because he is “stylish and brave.” After a night at the club, the hero turns to his companion: “It sucks, you’re not even a girl, you’re rotten meat!” (literally). The guy hits on the girl with the phrase “You are better than the Internet.” Everything is as it happens in life.

“We are adherents of the discourse of post-gopnichestvo” (emphasis on I), Roma jokes. Or maybe he’s not joking. What I really like about LSP is this combination of children and adults: these are the songs of a child who suddenly one day discovered that all his peers have matured, but he hasn’t. That’s why there’s a joke thing standing nearby. about Pikachu and a track about how a person jumps from the roof; failed love, drugs, lack of money - all this is in his songs.

What they don’t have is an evil, approaching provincialism; for this, Oleg and Roma are very educated, open-minded and, excuse me, ideological. To my surprise, I learn that the title of their latest album, “Hangman,” is taken from a song by the St. Petersburg alternative group “Chimera.”

The school of electropunk was not in vain - Roma cranks up Skrillex's "wob-wob", Davidgett's synthesizers and Baauer's 808 drums to the maximum. Therefore, everything sounds loud, assertive, desperate. And maybe a little more teenage than required - but this is already your personal problems.

“Cocktail” is LSP’s main song today; it is usually played last at concerts.

“LSP - clean water literature, there are no worries, personal experience. It is clear that there is love, pain, existential suffering, but it is not clear that it is Oleg LSP who suffers. Every Russian rapper is a hostage to himself: many rappers like to turn their lives into a reality show. But we don’t have that. Oleg can then call himself whatever he wants - and it will be ruined."

There is one more nuance: for all Oleg’s extraordinary charm, his music is equally masculine and feminine. “I constantly read on VKontakte that we write songs for chicks. And I was always amazed, what normal guy would write songs for boys?! I feel sorry for people like that.” Oleg’s fellow countryman Max Korzh works in much the same way: if you come to his concerts, it’s easy to see that there are approximately equal numbers of visitors of both sexes.

Comparisons with Korzh don’t irritate you? “Yes, I recently read on the contrary that it was Korzh who took everything from us. Well, we stewed together in the same..... (garbage), hung out in the same studio." Roma, among other things, participated in the recording of Korzh’s second album, “Life in High.” But he and Oleg are reluctant to talk about Korzh; Instead, we pack up and go to VDNKh. On the way, we discuss Yanix’s new mixtape - then, when we meet in person, Oleg will surprise him by knowing the words to all the tracks by heart.

A day later, I watch how at an LSP concert, right in front of the stage, a hundred people start jumping madly from the very first track. Oleg talks cheerful nonsense all the time, raises toasts to Moscow and is so charmingly rude to the audience that no one can even think of being offended by him. And suddenly it dawns on me how to explain in a nutshell to myself, to you, and to anyone else what is so special about him.

It's simple. He is stylish and bold.

LSP (Oleg Savchenko) who is this?

Real name— Oleg Savchenko

Hometown— Vitebsk, Belarus

Nickname— LSP

Activity— Rapper

Family status- Not married

Height — 181

LSP (Oleg Savchenko) biography

Oleg Savchenko, better known as LSP, is popular rapper of Belarusian origin.

Childhood

IN early childhood the boy was fond of pop music. One of Oleg Savchenko’s favorite performers in those years was singer Andrei Gubin. A little later, when the Star Factory 4 project came out on television, the future musician was inspired by hip-hop motifs performed by Timati. Under the influence of a new direction in musical world, Oleg Savchenko began to immerse himself more and more in the rap culture, falling in love with such performers as Bad Balance, Decl and many others. The boy's parents noticed his passion for music early and decided to support him in every possible way in his youthful hobby.

In those years, rock music became popular in Russia, represented by such bright rock bands as Zemfira, KiSh, Mumiy Troll and many others. But in the end, Oleg Savchenko understands that rap music is closer to his spirit. On my eighteenth birthday, future star Russian rap singer records test singles in the style of hip-hop.

Music career

Oleg Savchenko recorded his first official mixtape in 2007. The album was called “I Got It All!”, and a little later another collection of music was recorded, called “Here We Come Again.” Two years later, rapper LSP begins his working together on the new album “No Appeals” with popular representatives of the hip-hop movement, Deech and Maxie Flow. In 2009, Oleg Savchenko finished work on his first video clip, on musical composition"Hippie". In September of the same year, the young musician released a six-song EP entitled “Seeing Colorful Dreams” into the public domain.

In the first half of 2012, rapper LSP began a fruitful collaboration with beatmaker and musician Roma Sashchenko. Their first collaboration was the song “Numbers”. Somewhat later, a video was also shot for a piece of music called “Why do I need this world.”

Literally a year after the start of collaboration between two gifted representatives of the Russian rap stage in one team, a new music video for the song “ LSP - Cocktail" A number of critics stated that this film adaptation of the song was the best in Russia in 2013.

In January 2014, LSP released an album called “YOP”. The recording of the song “Loop” featured a rap artist from St. Petersburg, Galat. In April of the same year, Oleg Savchenko and Roma Sashchenko, in collaboration with Yung Trappa recording the track "MLD". In May 2014, fans of the rap team LSP learned about the release of their first studio album, “Hangman.” Video clips were shot for the musical works “Vinaigret” and “Lost and Not Found” a little later.

The producer of almost all subsequent releases of the LSP group becomes Roman Englishman, aka Roma Sashchenko.

At some point, the young rappers are noticed by an authoritative representative of the Russian rap stage, Miron Yanovich, performing under the pseudonym Oxxxymiron. Under him sensitive leadership, the guys from LSP managed to conclude a lucrative contract with the concert agency Booking Machine.

In September 2014, on the advice of the same Miron Yanovich, Oleg Savchenko decides to take part in the rap competition ““. And although LSP was able to take first place, beating the performer Meowizzy in the final, the young man himself still does not understand, as he admits, why he spent so much nerves participating in the event.

At the end of November, Oleg Savchenko releases a collaboration with Oxxxymiron, entitled “I'm Bored of Life.” It was this piece of music that became the best at the end of 2014, according to The Flow.

In the middle of the first quarter of 2015, the mini-album “Romantic Collegtion” was released. In the summer of the same year, LSP recorded and released a solo album "Magic City". It was after the appearance of this work that Oleg Savchenko and Roman Sashchenko became known to rap fans from Russia.

On the wave of fame, the LSP group decides to end its cooperation with the Booking Machine agency, accusing the concert organizers of the fact that, under the leadership of the company, there were too few live performances.

At the end of September 2016, Oleg Savchenko once again delighted his fans by releasing a six-track album called “Confectionery”. Above the collection entry rap group LSP worked together with the rap artist, aka.

At the end of April 2017, Oleg Savchenko decides to remind himself by presenting to the public another collection of music, called Tragic City , consisting of 13 compositions. In May of the same year, a video clip was shot for the song “Coin”, which received more than 20 million views in a short period of time.

Personal life

Oleg Savchenko tries not to talk about his personal life. Therefore, journalists from various music publications know nothing about the girls young musician. The rapper himself has repeatedly said that he does not have children or a wife. And problems with female half humanity does not exist for him.

LSP now

Death of Roma the Englishman

At the end of July 2017, the Russian rap community was shocked by the news about death of Roma the Englishman (Sashchenko), who at the age of 29 became a full member of the group. Immediately, rumors spread in the media field that Oleg Savchenko’s closest friend and ally had died due to problems with alcohol and drugs. After several weeks of mourning, Oleg said that the group’s plans do not change and tour“Tragic City” will definitely happen.

In memory of the late Roman, Oleg Savchenko recorded a video clip for the musical work “ LSP - Body" On video hosting YouTube clip appeared on October 2, 2017. The role of Roman in the film adaptation of the song was played by a video blogger who looks very much like the deceased rap artist. On the same day, on the set of the program “ Evening Urgant» LPS sang the song “Labyrinth of Reflections”.

Oleg LSP’s debut mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released on September 16, 2011. In the subsequent period, Oleg met and joined forces in working on new music with Roma the Englishman, the first fruit of cooperation with whom was the single “Numbers”. The release of “YOP,” an album that included songs released between 2012 and 2014, took place on January 8, 2014. Soon after this, on May 24, 2014, Oleg and Roman unexpectedly released another album - the numbered “Hangman”. In August of the same year, it became known that LSP and the Englishman began cooperation with the booking agency Booking Machine. On February 3, 2015, the mini-album “LSP” Romantic Colegtion was released, the name of which plays on the names of its creators. In the summer of 2015, the duo left Booking Machine, which was decided not to be advertised immediately. This same summer, on July 19, 2015, Oleg released his solo album, the numbered Magic City.

On April 1, 2016, as The Flow writes, “a whole drama begins, a clash between two heroes of a generation,” when representatives of Booking Machine publish the song “Imperial” with the participation of LSP and Oxxxymiron, in which the latter performs a diss on his former colleague. Over the next week, Oleg and Miron exchange video messages, presenting their vision of the current situation, after which they cut off any contact with each other. On September 30, 2016, LSP will release a joint mini-album “Confectionery” with Pharaoh. On April 28, 2017, Oleg and Roman released the numbered album Tragic City, which is a continuation of the year before last Magic City.

On July 30, 2017, Roma Englishman, a participant in the LSP project, died. On August 5, Oleg announced that the project would not be closed, but the tour in support of Tragic City would still take place. After the tour started, it became known that Oleg’s new concert group included Den Hawk (Piggy Bang bandmate) and Pyotr Klyuev.

Life and career

The first performer whose songs Oleg consciously liked was Andrey Gubin. At the age of 14 he sees the television program “Star Factory 4”, in which Timati performs. Surprised by the presence of rap on Channel One, he decides to delve deeper into hip-hop culture, becoming a listener of Decl and Bad Balance. Later he gets acquainted with Russian rock and the work of such musicians of the corresponding genre as Zemfira, Nike Borzov, “Cartoon Films”, “Mumiy Troll” and “The King and the Clown”. However, after some time he returns to rap, starting to listen to American hip-hop, from the experience of listening to which he concludes that “the sound is as important as the meaning, and sometimes even, perhaps, more important.”

He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Linguistic University with a degree in linguist-teacher: as Oleg himself recalls, at that time there were financial difficulties. However, his parents always supported both him and his musical endeavors.

2007-2009: Early recordings and participation in hip-hop battles

In 2007-2008, LSP participated in the 6th team battle of hip-hop.ru as part of the ShRec Pro team that reached the 2nd round, where Max Korzh was also listed, as well as in the 8th official battle of hip-hop .ru, where Oleg reached the 4th round.

In the same year, he began writing and recording songs that would later be included in the mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” The first were such compositions as “Magician” and “Streets”. Having heard Kanye West's album 808s & Heartbreak, Oleg, impressed by this work, records the first version of the song “Lambada”; the album version of the song was re-recorded and shortened in length.

On July 14, 2009, a joint mini-album “Without Appeals” was released with Deech and Maxie Flow, which included three songs, three backing tracks of the same songs and a bonus track.

2011-2013: “Seeing colorful dreams”, beginning of work with Sascheko

On May 24, 2012, the single “Numbers” was released, from which LSP began a close and fruitful collaboration with producer Roman Nikolaevich Sascheko, better known under the stage name Roma the Englishman.

On June 25, 2012, the song “Drip-Drip” was released from TO “Shovel”, of which LSP is a member. The video clip for the LSP song “Why do I need this world,” like the single itself, was released on September 26, 2012.

At the end of 2012, Oleg participated in A-One Hiphop Battle. As he later explained his weak creative activity during that period of time - all of 2012, he “reflected, set priorities, engaged in self-education and self-improvement, was sick, and wasted material.”

On March 6, 2013, LSP released the song “More Money.” On April 17, 2013, the single “Lilvane” was released, dedicated to Russian hip-hop culture. On May 13, 2013, both the video clip for the song “Cocktail” and the song itself were released. All three songs were included in the summary charts of the best Russian-language songs for the month on rap.ru, and “Cocktail” subsequently took a place in the ranking of the best songs of the year. “Cocktail” also made it into the top 20 Russian-language songs according to the A-One channel.

On July 28, 2013, Oleg releases a cover version of the song “Fool and Lightning” Russian group"King and the Clown". Earlier, on March 7, 2013, a video was released in which LSP also performed a cover of the song “Truth Gonna Hurt You” by American rapper Future. On October 25, 2013, the song “City” was released, on December 20, 2013, “Lost and Not Found” was released, and on December 25, “Pikachu”.

2014: “YOP” and “Hangman”, signing on Booking Machine

On January 8, 2014, the compilation album “YOP” was released, which included 10 songs and 2 bonus tracks - a tribute to the leader of the “King and the Jester” group Mikhail Gorshenev and a cover version of the song “Truth Gonna Hurt You” by Future. If we do not take into account “Live Loop” published a day earlier, then there was only one completely new song on the release - and this is the opening album “Rope”. The material for “YOP” was collected over 2.5 years.

On February 4, LSP releases the song “Overboard.” March 2 - a remix of “Everything at once” by Yanix, and March 14 - “Better than the Internet.” On April 13, the joint composition of LSP and Yung Trappa “MLD” (“Baby Loves the Dealer”) will be released. On May 23, two songs are released at once: “Meteor Shower”, as well as a remix of “MLD” - now this solo song LSP.

On May 24, 2014, the album “Gallows” was released (the name was taken from the song of the group “Chimera”), which included 8 songs. The music on both albums was largely produced by Roma the Englishman. It is noteworthy that in both albums each song had its own cover. The Flow included “Hangman” both in the top three Russian-language albums of 2014 and in the list of 20 best records for the 2010s.

« Generally speaking, it was electronic pop. Another thing is that instead of the required meaningless plots, Oleg told rather hopeless stories, inside of which there was despair, hopelessness and emptiness.The Flow on "Hangman"»

On October 31, 2014, the mixtape Yung Trappa Jesse Pinkman 2 was released. Of the thirteen songs on the record, LSP participated in three - all of them were originally prepared for joint album performers. Later, in February 2015, Oleg noted that Trappa “went off the radar,” and already in November he tells the story of their personal acquaintance: under what circumstances they met, how it happened creative process. LSP also says that he “thought to tell him something that they didn’t tell me,” but, as it turned out later, the advice Trappa accepted was not applied. On October 31, 2016, it became known that the rapper, convicted under Article 228 and having served in a pre-trial detention center for more than a year, was given almost six years in prison.

On November 27, 2014, LSP released a song together with Oksimiron, which was called “I’m Bored of Living.” At the end of the year, The Flow included the songs “MLD” and “I’m Bored to Live” in the list of the 50 best Russian-language recordings for the entire 2014.

2015: Romantic Colegtion and Magic City, departure from Booking Machine

The editors of The Flow included “Force Field” in the list of the best Russian-language songs for 2015. Oleg himself singled out this song in an interview for 34mag.net, where he called the text of “Force Field” one of his best creations.

On July 19, 2015, the album Magic City was released. Unlike the two previous studio albums, in Magic City Roma the Englishman limited himself to writing musical accompaniment for only five songs, while the rest was handled, in his own words, by “the fathers of trap music in Russia.” However, responsibility for all production and post-production of the album remains on the shoulders of the Englishman. Guest verses by Pharaoh, Oxxxymiron and Sil-A.

In anticipation of the album's release, on July 16, 2015, a video was released for a remix of the song "Madness", the original of which appears on the Breezey Montana mini-album "Gift or Curse", in which LSP performed only the chorus. “Bullet”, with Pharaoh, will be included in The Flow’s list of the best songs of 2015 at the end of the year, and the remix of “Madness”, with Oksimiron, will top its top ten. On September 10, 2015, a video clip for another song from Magic City, “OK,” was released.

In the summer of 2015, he stopped collaborating with Booking Machine, explaining that after signing, the small number of concerts that had previously came to naught. On April 1, 2016, Porchy’s song “Imperial” was released, which was originally planned to be included in the tracklist of his mixtape King Midas and in which Oleg, according to Oksimiron, talks about what he thinks about his former booking agency. In “Imperial” what happens is, as The Flow described the song: “a whole drama, a clash between two heroes of a generation” - LSP and Oxxxymiron. Oleg himself, contrary to his colleague’s accusations, stated that he put a completely different meaning into his text and in the online broadcast of the Periscope application, in his characteristic manner, performed “auto-decoding”, from a personal position explaining the meaning of virtually every line of his, concluding that his verse is ordinary represent. “I’m sure if the track had just been released by Porchy and I, it wouldn’t have been given to anyone, and diss songs wouldn’t have been found there either. Myron himself memeified him with his appearance on the track, turning almost any of my absolutely abstract lines into an attack on him and the Booking Machine,” LSP would later say.

2016-2017: “Confectionery”, Tragic City, departure of the Englishman

On May 17, LSP uploads a remix of the remix of the song “Madness,” to which he added the second verse. As he explained, he saw a lack of integrity and logic in the song, where the second verse was performed by Oksimiron, and gave as an example that such a trick had been pulled off before - with the song “MLD”, in original version which Yung Trappa sang the second verse.

In July - on the 8th and 10th - LSP uploads 2 leftovers from the time of “YOP” and “Hangman”: songs called “Bonus Babe” and “In Half”. On September 8, the song “Cake” is released, performed by LSP and the Moscow performer Pharaoh.

On September 30, 2016, the mini-album “Confectionery” was published on SoundCloud - a joint project LSP and Pharaoh. The release took place in support of their joint Cake Factory tour. On October 3, he entered such sites as iTunes Store and Apple Music.

On February 11, 2017, the first single, called “Phoenix,” was released from LSP’s next solo album, the release of which was originally scheduled for the fall of 2017. Previously, “the first single from the upcoming album” was called “Spit into Eternity.” “Phoenix” was recorded, according to Oleg, one and a half to two years before its release.

On April 22, 2017, the second track from the future album, “Money Problem,” was released, which had previously been performed at the group’s concerts.

On April 28, 2017, the third numbered studio album “LSP” Tragic City was released. There is only one invited performer - Lyokha Nikonov (“PTVP”). There are 13 songs, including the previously released singles “Spit in Eternity” and “Money Problem”. Tragic City is a direct continuation of Magic City and, in addition, introduces images, heroes, quotes from LSP’s previous works into the story.

« When I finished “Magic City”, it seemed that nothing better could be written and that this was our magnum opus. But a little time passed, and I began to gradually imagine the vector of further movement.<…>Recently I also thought that after “Tragic City” there was nothing much to say, but literally last days working on it, I already began to imagine what we will do next.LSP o further creativity »

On May 20, the “Coin” video was released, which became the most viewed LSP video in the entire history of the project.

The song Big is released on July 28 Russian Boss“Pimperial” to the musical accompaniment of Roma the Englishman and Davip, in which LSP took part. The composition parodies last year’s “Imperial” - however, only at the level of the title and the presence of the meme phrase “ty pozhaleesh ob etom though”. Previously, the artists had already recorded the track “Celebration” together, which was included on the second solo album of Boss I.G.O.R.. BRB and LSP also collaborated as part of the Big Russian Boss Show, where Oleg and Roman became guests.

2017–present: Tragic City Tour

After the start of the Tragic City Tour, it became known that the new LSP concert lineup included Den Hawk and Pyotr Klyuev. Denis is known for his collaboration with Oleg himself on early stage creativity, and work within the framework of Piggy Bang, together with Petr Klyuev LSP previously performed “Coin” in an acoustic arrangement as part of 34 Music Sessions.

On October 2, 2017, a video clip for the song “Body” was published. The touching video series is dedicated to Roma the Englishman, who recently passed away, and is a kind of farewell to him. The role of Roman Sashcheko in the video was played by St. Petersburg video blogger Dmitry Larin. On the same day Oleg became musical guest in the “Evening Urgant” program, where he performed the song “Labyrinth of Reflections”. On October 4, Larin posted a behind-the-scenes vlog from the filming on his channel music video, in which, among other things, he noted that the video directors were encouraged to take him for the role of the Englishman by the comments under the video clip “Coin”, which played up the external similarity of Dmitry and Roman. As the video blogger stated, Oleg was filmed separately due to the discrepancy between their schedules. The backstage from the Dope Films team that shot the video was published on October 7.

Abbreviation (decoding)

In an interview with NUC magazine (April 10, 2014): “Once about 10 years in a row I looked out the window, this was when I was still at school. In general, I was looking out the window at the sun and began to feel like a holy Baptist in myself when the sun spoke to me. Although I didn’t understand any of what it said, and I never became a Baptist, the sunny symbolism of these wonderful words settled in my heart - A ray is stronger than a bullet. I don’t know where they would come from, but I liked the abbreviation.”

In an interview with The Flow website (June 17, 2014): “Usually when they interview us, they immediately ask about the name. Recently they asked - is it true that this means “A ray is stronger than a bullet”? Well, we say, no, it means “Lick yourself... [vagina].”

In an interview with “Blaze on the Sofa” (July 29, 2014): “[The option that’s closer to me now is] “A boy’s loving heart.” In Belarus we have a group called “Broken Sir Boy”. Well, sort of, it’s clear. But we recently realized that LSP is probably “A Boy’s Loving Heart.” Not “Broken” yet.”

At Versus Battle against Meowizzy (October 19, 2014), Oleg played with the LSP decoding like this: “You are LSP, but not Oleg - you just lick your penis.”
In an interview on the Big Russian Boss Show (April 25, 2017): “My favorite transcript is “Better ask later.”

The decoding of LSP is found in several of the artist’s tracks: “LSP - lies, passions and vices” (“Magic City”, Magic City), “LSP, sing better a love song, the most truthful” (“Money Problem”, Tragic City).

Artistry

Andrey Nedashkovsky from The Flow, in a review of the album “Hangman,” noted the “monotoneity” of LSP’s vocals, and also described his music as follows: “ <…>if you want flow, wordplay and other rap tricks, you won't find it here<…>. [But] Oleg dilutes the serious verses with funny turns of phrase, memorable phrases and choruses. And he simply knows how to entertain the listener.”. On the website Disgustingmen.com, Nikolai Chumakov described the leitmotif of LSP as follows: “Behind the melodic beat and sweet-voiced vocals lies the main advantage of Oleg’s work - his loud desire to declare his lost life».

Discography

Concert tours

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LSP (short for Lil’ Stupid Pig)

Oleg Vadimovich Savchenko (born July 10, 1989, Vitebsk), better known by his stage name LSP, is a Belarusian singer, rapper and songwriter from Minsk. He began his solo career in 2007, and has since released three mini-albums and four studio albums. He worked in close collaboration with Mogilev producer Roman Sascheko (aka Roma the Englishman; April 27, 1988 - July 30, 2017) as the duo of the same name “LSP”.

Even in childhood LSP began studying music when his father hired a piano tutor for him. After some time, LSP quits classes and begins to write his first poems for the table.

The first performer whose songs Oleg LSP consciously liked, says Andrey Gubin. At 14 years old LSP sees the TV program “Star Factory 4”, in which he performs

LSP
Name at birth - Oleg Vadimovich Savchenko
Date of birth July 10, 1989
Place of birth: Vitebsk, BSSR, USSR
Years active 2004 – present
Country Belarus
Profession: singer, rapper, songwriter
Genres: hip-hop dub indie pop Electonic music grime drum and bass brostep
Nicknames Oleg 500 Sava Lance
Collectives “BPK” (2004–2007) “ШRec Pro” (2007–2009) TO “Shovel” (2009–present) Piggy Bang (2013–present)
Collaboration - Roma Englishman, Aes Genius, Yung Trappa, Oxxxymiron, Pharaoh

Later, LSP gets acquainted with Russian rock and the work of such musicians of the corresponding genre as Zemfira, Nike Borzov, “MultFilms”, “Mumiy Troll” and “The King and the Jester”. However, after some time he returns to rap, starting to listen to American hip-hop, from the experience of listening to which he concludes that “the sound is as important as the meaning, and sometimes even, perhaps, more important.”

LSP graduated from the Faculty of Philology, although, as he recalls LSP, was not without financial difficulties.

Several demo recordings were released in 2007 Oleg LSP, including the solo mixtape “I Got It” and the compilation album Here We Come Again. In 2008, he participated in the 6th team battle of hip-hop.ru as part of the team “ShRec Pro”, which also reached the 2nd round, where Max Korzh was also listed, as well as in the 8th official battle of hip-hop.ru, where Oleg reached the 4th round.
In the same year, he began writing and recording songs that would later be included in the mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” The first were such compositions as “Magician” and “Streets”. Having heard Kanye West's album 808s & Heartbreak, Oleg, impressed by this work, records the first version of the song “Lambada”; the album version of the song was re-recorded and shortened in length.

2011–2012: Beginning solo career[

Oleg LSP’s debut mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released on September 16, 2011. In the subsequent period, Oleg met and joined forces in working on new music with Roma the Englishman, the first fruit of cooperation with whom was the single “Numbers”. The release of “YOP,” an album that included songs released between 2012 and 2014, took place on January 8, 2014. Soon after this, on May 24, 2014, Oleg and Roman unexpectedly released another album - the numbered “Hangman”. In August of the same year, it became known that LSP and the Englishman began cooperation with the booking agency Booking Machine. On February 3, 2015, the mini-album “LSP” Romantic Colegtion was released, the name of which plays on the names of its creators. In the summer of 2015, the duo left Booking Machine, which was decided not to be advertised immediately. This same summer, on July 19, 2015, Oleg released his solo album, the numbered Magic City.

On April 1, 2016, as The Flow writes, “a whole drama begins, a clash between two heroes of a generation,” when representatives of Booking Machine publish the song “Imperial” with the participation of LSP and Oxxxymiron, in which the latter performs a diss on his former colleague. Over the next week, Oleg and Miron exchange video messages, presenting their vision of the current situation, after which they cut off any contact with each other. On September 30, 2016, LSP will release a joint mini-album “Confectionery” with Pharaoh. On April 28, 2017, Oleg and Roman released the numbered album Tragic City, which is a continuation of the year before last Magic City.

On July 30, 2017, Roma Englishman, a participant in the LSP project, died. On August 5, Oleg announced that the project would not be closed, but the tour in support of Tragic City would still take place. After the tour started, it became known that Oleg’s new concert group included Den Hawk (Piggy Bang bandmate) and Pyotr Klyuev.

Contents [hide]
1 Life and career
1.1 2007-2009: Early recordings and participation in hip-hop battles
1.2 2011-2013: “Seeing colorful dreams”, beginning of work with Sascheko
1.3 2014: “YOP” and “Hangman”, signed on Booking Machine
1.4 2015: Romantic Colegtion and Magic City, leaving Booking Machine
1.5 2016-2017: “Confectionery”, Tragic City, departure of the Englishman
1.6 2017 - present: Tragic City Tour
2 Abbreviation (decoding)
3 Artistry
4 Discography
5 Concert tours
6 Notes
6.1 Sources
6.2 Video sources
7 Links
Life and career[edit | edit wiki text]
Oleg Savchenko was born on July 10, 1989 in Vitebsk into a family of journalists. He began studying music as a child when his father hired a piano tutor for him. After some time, he quits classes and begins to write his first poems for the table.

The first performer whose songs Oleg consciously liked was Andrey Gubin. At the age of 14 he sees the television program “Star Factory 4”, in which Timati performs. Surprised by the presence of rap on Channel One, he decides to delve deeper into hip-hop culture, becoming a listener of Decl and Bad Balance. Later he gets acquainted with Russian rock and the work of such musicians of the corresponding genre as Zemfira, Nike Borzov, “MultFilms”, “Mumiy Troll” and “The King and the Jester”. However, after some time he returns to rap, starting to listen to American hip-hop, from the experience of listening to which he concludes that “the sound is as important as the meaning, and sometimes even, perhaps, more important.”

He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Linguistic University with a degree in linguist-teacher: as Oleg himself recalls, at that time there were financial difficulties. However, his parents always supported both him and his musical endeavors.

2007-2009: Early recordings and participation in hip-hop battles[edit | edit wiki text]
In 2007, when Oleg turned 18, several LSP demo recordings were released, including the solo mixtape “I Got Everything!” and the collection Here We Come Again.

In 2007-2008, LSP participated in the 6th team battle of hip-hop.ru as part of the ShRec Pro team that reached the 2nd round, where Max Korzh was also listed, as well as in the 8th official battle of hip-hop .ru, where Oleg reached the 4th round.

In the same year, he began writing and recording songs that would later be included in the mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” The first were such compositions as “Magician” and “Streets”. Having heard Kanye West's album 808s & Heartbreak, Oleg, impressed by this work, records the first version of the song “Lambada”; the album version of the song was re-recorded and shortened in length.

On July 14, 2009, a joint mini-album “Without Appeals” was released with Deech and Maxie Flow, which included three songs, three backing tracks of the same songs and a bonus track.

2011-2013: “Seeing colorful dreams”, beginning of work with Sascheko[edit | edit wiki text]

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On July 1, 2011, the video clip for the song “Hippie” was released. On September 16, the debut solo mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released, consisting of 5 songs and 1 bonus remix. The album was produced by Aes Genius, 614, Paul Pain, as well as LSP himself. Although at that time he was not personally acquainted with Roman the Englishman, he was responsible for the general control of the release's mixing.

On May 24, 2012, the single “Numbers” was released, from which LSP began a close and fruitful collaboration with producer Roman Nikolaevich Sascheko, better known under the stage name Roma the Englishman.

On June 25, 2012, the song “Drip-Drip” was released from TO “Shovel”, of which LSP is a member. The video clip for the LSP song “Why do I need this world,” like the single itself, was released on September 26, 2012.

At the end of 2012, Oleg participated in A-One Hiphop Battle. As he later explained his weak creative activity during that period of time, throughout 2012 he “reflected, set priorities, engaged in self-education and self-improvement, was sick, and wasted material.”

On March 6, 2013, LSP released the song “More Money.” On April 17, 2013, the single “Lilvane” was released, dedicated to Russian hip-hop culture. On May 13, 2013, both the video clip for the song “Cocktail” and the song itself were released. All three songs were included in the summary charts of the best Russian-language songs for the month on rap.ru, and “Cocktail” subsequently took a place in the ranking of the best songs of the year. “Cocktail” also made it into the top 20 Russian-language songs according to the A-One channel.

On July 28, 2013, Oleg released a cover version of the song “Fool and Lightning” by the Russian group “Korol i Shut”. Earlier, on March 7, 2013, a video was released in which LSP also performed a cover of the song “Truth Gonna Hurt You” by American rapper Future. On October 25, 2013, the song “City” was released, on December 20, 2013, “Lost and Not Found” was released, and on December 25, “Pikachu”.

2014: “YOP” and “Hangman”, signing on Booking Machine[edit | edit wiki text]
On January 3, 2014, LSP publishes a remix of “Soft Lips and Tattoos” by Yung Trappa. January 7 - joint song with Galat “Living Loop”.

On January 8, 2014, the compilation album “YOP” was released, which included 10 songs and 2 bonus tracks - a tribute to the leader of the “King and the Jester” group Mikhail Gorshenev and a cover version of the song “Truth Gonna Hurt You” by Future. If we do not take into account “Live Loop” published a day earlier, then there was only one completely new song on the release - and this is the opening album “Rope”. The material for “YOP” was collected over 2.5 years.

On February 4, LSP releases the song “Overboard.” March 2 - a remix of “Everything at once” by Yanix, and March 14 - “Better than the Internet.” On April 13, the joint composition of LSP and Yung Trappa “MLD” (“Baby Loves the Dealer”) will be released. On May 23, two songs are released at once: “Meteor Shower”, as well as a remix of “MLD” - now this is LSP’s solo song.

On May 24, 2014, the album “Gallows” was released (the name was taken from the song of the group “Chimera”), which included 8 songs. The music on both albums was largely produced by Roma the Englishman. It is noteworthy that in both albums each song had its own cover. The Flow included “Hangman” both in the top three Russian-language albums of 2014 and in the list of the 20 best recordings of the 2010s.

“Generally speaking, it was electronic pop. Another thing is that instead of the required meaningless plots, Oleg told rather hopeless stories, inside of which there was despair, hopelessness and emptiness.
The Flow about "Hangman" »
On August 4, LSP releases a remix of the song “Samurai” by Basta and Guf. On August 20, 2014, it became known that LSP began cooperation with the booking agency Booking Machine. On August 20, a video clip for the song “Vinaigret” was released. In September, he took part in the St. Petersburg hip-hop project Versus Battle - LSP's opponent was battle regular Meowizzy. The issue itself was released on October 19, 2014, and Oleg won the verbal duel. Oxxxymiron advised Oleg to go to the event, and LSP himself would later describe his attitude towards the battle as follows: “I still can’t imagine why I spent time on this.”

On October 31, 2014, the mixtape Yung Trappa Jesse Pinkman 2 was released. Of the thirteen songs on the record, LSP participated in three - all of them were originally prepared for the joint album of the performers. Later, in February 2015, Oleg noted that Trappa “went off the radar,” and already in November he tells the story of their personal acquaintance: under what circumstances they met, how the creative process took place. LSP also says that he “thought to tell him something that they didn’t tell me,” but, as it turned out later, the advice Trappa accepted was not applied. On October 31, 2016, it became known that the rapper, convicted under Article 228 and having served in a pre-trial detention center for more than a year, was given almost six years in prison.

On November 27, 2014, LSP released a song together with Oksimiron, which was called “I’m Bored of Living.” At the end of the year, The Flow included the songs “MLD” and “I’m Bored to Live” in the list of the 50 best Russian-language recordings for the entire 2014.

2015: Romantic Colegtion and Magic City, departure from Booking Machine[edit | edit wiki text]
On February 3, 2015, LSP released a mini-album, Romantic Colegtion. Two songs - “SPVL” (“I’ll Believe in Love Again”) and “Force Field” (an excerpt of which was demonstrated back in January) - are new and produced by Roma the Englishman. The third, “Exactly That ’15,” as the title suggests, is an updated version of the track with musical accompaniment by Deech “Exactly That” from the 2009 mini-album “Without Appeals,” which was recorded together with the above-mentioned Deech, as well as with Maxie Flow.

The editors of The Flow included “Force Field” in the list of the best Russian-language songs for 2015. Oleg himself singled out this song in an interview for 34mag.net, where he called the text of “Force Field” one of his best creations.

On July 19, 2015, the album Magic City was released. Unlike the two previous studio albums, in Magic City Roma the Englishman limited himself to writing musical accompaniment for only five songs, while the rest was handled, in his own words, by “the fathers of trap music in Russia.” However, responsibility for all production and post-production of the album remains on the shoulders of the Englishman. Guest verses by Pharaoh, Oxxxymiron and Sil-A.

In anticipation of the album's release, on July 16, 2015, a video was released for a remix of the song "Madness", the original of which appears on the Breezey Montana mini-album "Gift or Curse", in which LSP performed only the chorus. “Bullet”, with Pharaoh, will be included in The Flow’s list of the best songs of 2015 at the end of the year, and the remix of “Madness”, with Oksimiron, will top its top ten. On September 10, 2015, a video clip for another song from Magic City, “OK,” was released.

In the summer of 2015, he stopped collaborating with Booking Machine, explaining that after signing, the small number of concerts that had previously came to naught. On April 1, 2016, Porchy’s song “Imperial” was released, which was originally planned to be included in the tracklist of his mixtape King Midas and in which Oleg, according to Oksimiron, talks about what he thinks about his former booking agency. In “Imperial” what happens is, as The Flow described the song: “a whole drama, a clash between two heroes of a generation” - LSP and Oxxxymiron. Oleg himself, contrary to his colleague’s accusations, stated that he put a completely different meaning into his text and in the online broadcast of the Periscope application, in his characteristic manner, performed “auto-decoding”, from a personal position explaining the meaning of virtually every line of his, concluding that his verse is ordinary represent. “I’m sure if the track had just been released by Porchy and I, it wouldn’t have been given to anyone, and diss songs wouldn’t have been found there either. Myron himself memeified him with his appearance on the track, turning almost any of my absolutely abstract lines into an attack on him and the Booking Machine,” LSP would later say.

2016-2017: “Confectionery”, Tragic City, departure of the Englishman[edit | edit wiki text]
On March 2, 2016, LSP released the song “Spit into Eternity.” On May 9, 2016, the composition “Miracle-Parole”, jointly with Sasha Skul, was released.

On May 17, LSP uploads a remix of the remix of the song “Madness,” to which he added the second verse. As he explained, he saw a lack of integrity and logic in the song, where the second verse was performed by Oksimiron, and cited as an example that such a trick had been pulled off before - with the song “MLD”, in the original version of which Yung Trappa sang the second verse.

In July - on the 8th and 10th - LSP uploads 2 leftovers from the time of “YOP” and “Hangman”: songs called “Bonus Babe” and “In Half”. On September 8, the song “Cake” is released, performed by LSP and the Moscow performer Pharaoh.

On September 30, 2016, the mini-album “Confectionery”, a joint project of LSP and Pharaoh, was published on SoundCloud. The release took place in support of their joint Cake Factory tour. On October 3, it arrived on platforms such as the iTunes Store and Apple Music.

On February 11, 2017, the first single, called “Phoenix,” was released from LSP’s next solo album, the release of which was originally scheduled for the fall of 2017. Previously, “the first single from the upcoming album” was called “Spit into Eternity.” “Phoenix” was recorded, according to Oleg, one and a half to two years before its release.

On April 22, 2017, the second track from the future album, “Money Problem,” was released, which had previously been performed at the group’s concerts.

On April 28, 2017, the third numbered studio album “LSP” Tragic City was released. There is only one invited performer - Lyokha Nikonov (“PTVP”). There are 13 songs, including the previously released singles “Spit in Eternity” and “Money Problem”. Tragic City is a direct continuation of Magic City and, in addition, introduces images, heroes, quotes from LSP’s previous works into the story.

“When I finished “Magic City”, it seemed that nothing better could be written and that this was our magnum opus. But a little time passed, and I began to gradually imagine the vector of further movement.<…>Recently I also thought that after “Tragic City” there was nothing much to say, but literally in the last days of working on it I already began to imagine what we would do next.
LSP about further creativity »
On May 14, 2017, Oleg Savchenko was unable to attend the concert of his colleague Thomas Mraz, who joined the ranks of Booking Machine artists in February of this year, in Minsk: the organizer of the performances, Ilya Mamai, according to LSP, blacklisted him for this event.

On May 20, the “Coin” video was released, which became the most viewed LSP video in the entire history of the project.

On July 28, the Big Russian Boss song “Pimperial” is released with the musical accompaniment of Roma Englishman and Davip, in which LSP took part. The composition parodies last year’s “Imperial” - however, only at the level of the title and the presence of the meme phrase “ty pozhaleesh ob etom though”. Previously, the artists had already recorded the track “Celebration” together, which was included on the second solo album of Boss I.G.O.R.. BRB and LSP also collaborated as part of the Big Russian Boss Show, where Oleg and Roman became guests.

2017 - present: Tragic City Tour[edit | edit wiki text]
On August 5, Oleg spoke about his future plans: the tour in support of Tragic City will not be canceled, and the LSP project will continue to exist.

After the start of the Tragic City Tour, it became known that the new LSP concert lineup included Den Hawk and Pyotr Klyuev. Denis is known both for his collaboration with Oleg himself at an early stage of creativity, and for his work within the framework of Piggy Bang, and together with Petr Klyuev LSP previously performed “Coin” in an acoustic arrangement as part of 34 Music Sessions.

On October 2, 2017, a video clip for the song “Body” was published. The touching video series is dedicated to Roma the Englishman, who recently passed away, and is a kind of farewell to him. The role of Roman Sashcheko in the video was played by St. Petersburg video blogger Dmitry Larin. On the same day, Oleg became a musical guest in the Evening Urgant program, where he performed the song “Labyrinth of Reflections.” On October 4, Larin posted a behind-the-scenes vlog on his channel from the filming of a music video, in which, among other things, he noted that the music video directors were encouraged to cast him in the role of the Englishman by the comments under the video clip “Coin,” which played up the resemblance between Dmitry and Roman. As the video blogger stated, Oleg was filmed separately due to the discrepancy between their schedules. The backstage from the Dope Films team that shot the video was published on October 7.

Abbreviation (decoding)[edit | edit wiki text]
As Oleg stated in an interview with the program “On Blaze’s Sofa” in response to one of the most frequently asked questions - “Where did the name come from and what does it mean?” - the musician has plenty of options for how to answer, and the question itself is already perceived as white noise. So, in different interviews the answer to this question looked different:

In an interview with NUC magazine (April 10, 2014): “Once about 10 years in a row I looked out the window, this was when I was still at school. In general, I was looking out the window at the sun and began to feel like a holy Baptist in myself when the sun spoke to me. Although I didn’t understand any of what it said, and I never became a Baptist, the sunny symbolism of these wonderful words settled in my heart - A ray is stronger than a bullet. I don’t know where they would come from, but I liked the abbreviation.”
In an interview with The Flow website (June 17, 2014): “Usually when they interview us, they immediately ask about the name. Recently they asked - is it true that this means “A ray is stronger than a bullet”? Well, we say, no, it means “Lick yourself... [vagina].”
In an interview with “Blaze on the Sofa” (July 29, 2014): “[The option that’s closer to me now is] “A boy’s loving heart.” In Belarus we have a group called “Broken Sir Boy”. Well, sort of, it’s clear. But we recently realized that LSP is probably “A Boy’s Loving Heart.” Not “Broken” yet.”
At Versus Battle against Meowizzy (October 19, 2014), Oleg played with the LSP decoding like this: “You are LSP, but not Oleg - you just lick your penis.”
In an interview on the Big Russian Boss Show (April 25, 2017): “My favorite transcript is “Better ask later.”
The decoding of LSP is found in several of the artist’s tracks: “LSP - lies, passions and vices” (“Magic City”, Magic City), “LSP, better sing a song about love, the most truthful” (“Money problem”, Tragic City).
Artistry[edit | edit wiki text]
Autotune is used in LSP songs. At the time of the release of “Seeing Colorful Dreams,” indie sound predominated in his music, and for the “YOP” and “Hangman” released in 2014, as Oleg himself notes, his partner Roma had already created “his own sound”: “<…>I read, sing and recite, mixing drum and bass, dubstep and hip-hop.” In the work of 2015, trap sounds prevailed.

Andrey Nedashkovsky from The Flow, in a review of the album “Hangman,” noted the “monotoneity” of LSP’s vocals, and also described his music as follows: “<…>if you want flow, wordplay and other rap tricks, you won't find it here<…>. [But] Oleg dilutes the serious verses with funny turns of phrase, memorable phrases and choruses. And he simply knows how to entertain the listener.” On the website Disgustingmen.com, Nikolai Chumakov described the leitmotif of LSP as follows: “Behind the melodic beat and sweet-voiced vocals lies the main advantage of Oleg’s work - his loud desire to declare his lost life.”

Discography[edit | edit wiki text]
Main article: LSP discography
2011 - “Seeing colorful dreams”
2014 - “YOP”
2014 - “Hangman”
2015 - Romantic Colection
2015 - Magic City
2016 - “Confectionery” (together with Pharaoh)
2017 - Tragic City
Concert tours[edit | edit wiki text]
2015 - tour of Belarus
2015 - big autumn tour
2016 - Never Over Tour (big spring tour)
2016 - Cake Factory (with Pharaoh)
2017 - Tragic City Tour

Usually a person performing on stage and not wanting to “shine” given name, chooses a beautiful, sonorous nickname that allows you to stand out from the crowd. This approach is also used by adherents of rap: Gnoyny, Scryptonite, Ptah - such names are difficult not to remember. But few people would dare to be called a “little stupid pig.” But, nevertheless, such a comrade was found: the abbreviation for the English Lil’ Stupid Pig - LSP - was chosen for the creative pseudonym by the Belarusian rapper Oleg Savchenko.

Childhood and youth

Oleg was born in July 1989 in Vitebsk into a family of journalists. WITH early years the boy became interested in pop music, his parents encouraged his hobby and even hired a piano teacher. With age, Oleg's interests shifted to the rock stage. Even later, when the young man heard Timati’s tracks, Savchenko realized that only rap reflected his inner mood.

When he came of age, Oleg presented himself with a gift in the form of an official mixtape called “I Got Everything!”, from the very first lines he stated without embarrassment:

“Hello everyone, here I am – one very cunning pig.”

The album was called lopsided, the performer’s vocal abilities were called weak, but the composition “And I rap” was called the best. At the same time, a new name appeared - LSP. Over time, in an interview, the musician voiced various interpretations of the pseudonym: “a ray is stronger than a bullet”, “a loving heart of a boy”, “lies, passion and vices”; he called the “better ask later” version his favorite.

Despite the fact that Savchenko devoted himself entirely to music, the future rap star managed to get a higher education at the Minsk State Linguistic University. But the diploma as a linguist teacher went on the shelf.

Music

Following debut album The collection “Here We Come Again” was released. Two years later, the result of joint work with hip-hoppers Deech and Maxie Flow was released - the mini-album “No Appeals”.

LSP has collaborated to one degree or another with Aes Genius Yung Trappa Oxxxymiron Pharaoh Yanix, Big Russian Boss. Since 2011, it is customary to count the beginning of LSP’s solo career. Then the solo album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released, songs from which the musician had previously posted on the Internet. In the same year, the video for the single “Hippie” was released.

In 2012, LSP became a duo: Oleg was joined by beatmaker Roma Sashchenko, known as Roma the Englishman. Roman was responsible for mixing the release of Oleg’s debut solo album; in addition to composing, he essentially took the place of producer in the team. Almost immediately after joining forces, the musicians released the singles “Numbers” and “Why do I need this world” with a video for it.

A year later, the talented duo presented the singles “More Money”, “Lilvane”, “Cocktail” to the audience. All songs were included in the charts of the best songs for the month, and the last one was called a diamond in the brostep genre and was awarded third place in the top best for 2013.

In 2014, two albums were released at once - “YOP” and “Hangman”. The rapper Galat participated in the recording of the first one. The album brought together both new and already published songs: “Rope”, “Pikachu”, “City”, “Numbers”. Fans called the composition “Why do I need this world” witty exercise in the field of dance music. The songs “Vinaigret” and “Lost and Not Found” were later embodied in videos.

The album "Gallows" includes 8 songs. The name was borrowed from the St. Petersburg punk band Chimera, famous in the nineties. The album was in the top three for 2014 and in the top 20 of the first ten years of the new century. Critics noted that in his songs Oleg, unlike other rappers, successfully acted as a storyteller. On some Belarusian rap sites, the composition “Better than the Internet” was put in first place out of everything that the musician has published to date.

In 2014, LSP was taken under the wing of the executive director of the booking agency Booking Machine, Miron Fedorov, also known as rap artist Oksimiron. Together with him, LSP released the song “I’m Bored of Living,” which in the same year was recognized as the best according to The Flow, as well as a collaboration with Yung Trappa called “MLD.”

Oleg himself considers one of best song“Force Field” from the album “Romantic Colegtion”, released in early 2015. Listeners praised the pop-funk composition “SPVL”.

After 4 months, the release of the next album, “Magic City,” was announced. Oksimiron, Pharaoh, Stepan Karma and Sil-A participated in the recording. Thanks to this work, Roman Sashchenko and Oleg Savchenko acquired an army of fans in the Russian rap space. Videos were shot for the songs “Madness” and “OK”.

Creative biography of LSP did sharp turn in the summer of 2015: the musicians refused to cooperate with Booking Machine, considering that the scope of the contract limited their performances, although it was at this time that LSP began active touring. Moreover, both sides supported the conflict with mutual video messages on pages on social networks, without choosing expressions, they outlined their vision of the situation. At this point, contacts stopped altogether.

In September 2016, LSP presented a joint project with Pharaoh, “Confectionery” - an album of six tracks. In support of the collaboration, the musicians announced a tour called “Cake Factory”. Also this year, LSP released “Spit in Eternity”, “Miracle-Parole”, a remix of “Madness”.

In the spring of 2017, the continuation of “Magic City” was released - “Tragic City”, a collection of 13 songs. The first video for the album was the video for the song “Coin”, in which Roman the Englishman appeared for the only time. The video set a record for views - more than 25 million.

In the same year, fans heard a collaboration with Big Russian Boss - “Pimperial”, the single “Money is not a problem”.

In the summer of 2017, the collaboration between Sashchenko and Savchenko was interrupted by the death of the Englishman. The artist’s family did not report the cause of death. Oleg made a video for the song “Body”, which he dedicated to his departed friend. The role of Roman was played by blogger Dmitry Larin, who resembles the rapper. The clip took first place on the Russian MTV chart.

Personal life

Oleg does not talk about his personal life and claims that there are no problems with the opposite sex. It is known that the musician is not married.

LSP now

After Roman’s death, Oleg said that he would continue to develop his solo project, and the performance schedule would be respected. On the page in social network Oleg wrote that the work of a large team remained behind the scenes, and above all, Roman himself would not allow the work to be stopped and the listeners to be left without music.

In September 2017, LSP went on a tour in support of “Tragic City,” during which he gave 38 concerts in five countries. On the tour, Savchenko was joined by a member of the Piggy Bang band, Den Hawk, who had previously starred in the “Vinaigret” video, and Petr Klyuev, a Belarusian musician who participated in the recording of the acoustic version of “Coins.”

At the end of 2017, Oleg released another song - “ A little prince" - in combination with an unusual hand-drawn video, together with the Moscow punk group "Pasosh" - new version their songs "Party". A Hell And Back Tour is planned for 2018.

Discography

2007 - “I understand everything!”

2009 - “No Appeals”

2011 - “Seeing colorful dreams”

2012 - “Why do I need this world”